WINGS Mentors2022-08-17T19:24:03+00:00

WINGS’
Mentor

Are you a corporate executive willing to pay-it-forward to empower women leaders of tomorrow?

Are you a successful entrepreneur willing to invest time to show the ropes to a future leader?

Are you a social maven who wants to inspire, and ensure the success of women leaders?

Apply to be A Mentor

A WINGS’ Mentor Is…

While participating as a mentor in WINGS is voluntary, we are looking for committed and passionate women and men willing to enthusiastically support the development of women who aspire to be leaders.

Our mentors meet the following criteria to participate in the program

EMBODY THE FOLLOWING
LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL QUALITIES

Self-Awareness

Resilience

Growth Mindset

A senior executive with the gravitas to lead

Innate teacher

Ability to listen without judgement

PROGRAM
EXPECTATIONS
  • Commit to the full 10-month program engagements
  • Meet once per week for the first 6-8 weeks and at least once per month thereafter
  • Participate in the monthly check-in process in addition to meeting with his/her mentee
  • Attend connectivity events to support mentees and the organization
  • Actively provide feedback to project management team
WHAT WOULD SUCCESS LOOK LIKE FOR
A WINGS MENTOR
  • Mentees feel confident about their career goals and they have clarity on how to be a better leader
  • Mentors feel proud of affecting the demonstrable change in their mentees which is evident in WINGS framework
  • They feel very satisfied with their contributions to not only their mentee’s development but society at large and continue their engagement at WINGS
  • After completing the program, mentors feel that they are a better mentor
  • Relationship with their mentees has been mutually beneficial
  • They are able to recognize the potential and relate better to women employees in their team
  • Valuable contributions to the program structure and methodology that helps in WINGS program evolution and growth

Our Group Mentors

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Michael Paulus

Managing Director, Head of the Public Sector Group, Asia-Pacific at Citi

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Drew Vaden

Retired, Past CTO, PIMCO

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Giles Nugent

Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer at Salusion, Mentor

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Catriona Schmolke

Non Executive Director and Member of the Audit & Risk Committee at Scottish Water

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Nicole Knott

Managing Director at Accenture

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Maureen Brosnan

Certified Money Coach, former MD at Accenture

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Naveed Iqbal

Business Technology Executive - Trading Systems at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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Naveed Iqbal

Business Technology Executive - Trading Systems at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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Roopa Bhandarkar

Partner at EY

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Michael Paulus

Managing Director, Head of the Public Sector Group, Asia-Pacific at Citi

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Lynne Sawyer

Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer Wealth Management at BNY Mellon

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Giles Nugent

Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer at Salusion, Mentor

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Maureen Brosnan

Certified Money Coach, former MD at Accenture

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Drew Vaden

Retired, Past CTO, PIMCO

Our Mentors

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Arun Vardarajan

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Ascendion

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Mary K Fiorille

Head of Enterprise Transformation at Citizens

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Michele Siekerka

President and CEO at New Jersey Business & Industry Association

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Sharon Stecker

Vice President at Matrix New World Engineering

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Ravi Mohan

Partner & COO at Nyca Partners

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Joe Kennedy

Partner PwC: AUTOMATING EVERYTHING - Advisor/Coder

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Riccardo Forlenza

Global Managing Director, Financial Services at IBM

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Owen Ellsworth

Managing Director at Citi Private Bank

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Sunil Warier

Managing Director at PwC

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Nikunj Nirmal

Head of new country launch programs for Amazon International Expansion

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Ken Soren

Manager of Financial Planning at Northwestern Mutual

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Craig Osten

Chief Operating Officer at PlasmaCord

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Tracy Stephan

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Lisa Kohut

Managing Director and Global Market Manager for East and EMEA at Citi Private Bank - Law Firm Group

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Shama Sarda

Global Head for Process Re-engineering, Simplification and TPM at Citi

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Jimmy Sharma

Managing Director at Morgan Stanley

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Sarah Shanahan

Director of Operations

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Jenny McGeough

Senior Vice President Operations at Schenck Process

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Rene Calitz

Head of Corporate Brand and Content at The Weir Group PLC

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Francesca Lombardi

Senior HR Specialst

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Deborah Ford

Vice President Human Resources at Kitty Hawk

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Carol Lynch

Board of Director Chief Business Officer at Sandoz

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Nicole Comello

Global Manager of Buy-Side Implementations at Bloomberg

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Rucha Vaidya

Chief of Staff to the Chief Accounting Officer & Controller

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Nikunj Nirmal

Head of new country launch programs for Amazon International Expansion

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Nisha Paliwal

Managing Vice President at Capital One

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Gary Nuss

Consultant, Professional Engineering Services (former SVP at Jacobs)

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Lisa Kohut

Managing Director and Global Market Manager for East and EMEA at Citi Private Bank

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Robin Hendrich

Vice President at Jacobs

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Lori Roth

Global Managing Partner of Prager Metis CPAs, LLC

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Jenny McGeough

Senior Vice President Operations at Schenck Process

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Vinay Mummigatti

EVP- Strategy and Customer Transformation

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Sarah Shanahan

Director of Operations at Jacobs

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Catriona Schmolke

Portfolio Non Executive Director and Board Chair, former SVP at JACOBS

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Joe Kennedy

Partner PwC: AUTOMATING EVERYTHING - Advisor/Coder

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Sharon Stecker

Senior Vice President at Brown and Caldwell

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Irina Kodes

Partner/Principal at EY - Financial Services

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Ravi Mohan

Partner & COO at Nyca Partners

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Kim Andryc

Managing Director at Bank of America

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Jimmy Sharma

Managing Director at Morgan Stanley

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Michele Siekerka

President and CEO at New Jersey Business & Industry Association

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Nicole Knott

Managing Director at Accenture

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Josef M Oddo

SVP Technology, GBS Core Acquiring, Fiserv

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Giles Nugent

Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer at Salusion, Mentor

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Amol Naik

Chief Operating Officer @Pagaya

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Valerie Delby

Sr. Director, Global Partner Management - Accenture

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Rick Lutz

Chief Revenue Officer at AlphaMille

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Jimmy Sharma

Managing Director at Morgan Stanley

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Amanda Beisel

Managing Director at Goldman Sachs

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Catriona Schmolke

Portfolio Non Executive Director and Board Chair, former SVP at JACOBS

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Augusta Sanfilippo

Managing Director at Barclays

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Naz Vahid

Managing Director and Global Head, Citi Global Wealth at Work

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Kim Andryc

Managing Director at Bank of America

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Deepa Adhia

Vice President Financial Services at Capgemini

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Roopa Bhandarkar

Partner at EY

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Michele Siekerka

President and CEO at New Jersey Business & Industry Association

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Nikki Sumpter

EVP, Chief Administrative Officer | Chief Human Resources Officer | Atlantic Health System

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Dr. Poornima Prasad

Global Chief People Officer - Accion Labs

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Maureen L. Brosnan

Certified Money Coach, former MD at Accenture

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Josef M Oddo

SVP Technology, GBS Core Acquiring, Fiserv

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Naveed Iqbal

Business Technology Executive - Trading Systems at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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Nicole Knott

Managing Director at Accenture

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Lynne Sawyer

Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer Wealth Management at BNY Mellon

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Joe Kennedy

Partner PwC: AUTOMATING EVERYTHING - Advisor/Coder

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Drew Vaden

Retired, Past CTO, PIMCO

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Henry Lee

High Tech Exec / M&A / Non-Profit Advisor / Mentor

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Chaya Pamula

Co-Founder, President & CEO of PamTen & SHETEK, Founder

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Diana Malcolmess

Digital Partner, BFS, VP, Genpact

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Drew Vaden

Retired, Past CTO, PIMCO

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Giles Nugent

Retired, Past EVP at PIMCO and Managing Director at Bank of America

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Michael Paulus

Managing Director, Head of the Public Sector Group, Asia-Pacific at Citi

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Ravi Mohan

Partner & COO at Nyca Partners

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Lynne Sawyer

Managing Director, Head of Deposits at BNY Mellon, Wealth Management

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Josef M Oddo

Advisor | Technology Strategy | Program Management | Leadership | FinTech

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Naz Vahid

Managing Director and Global Head, Law Firm Group at Citi Private Bank

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Nicole Knott

Managing Director at Accenture

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Naveed Iqbal

Business Technology Executive - Trading Systems at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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Dr. Poornima Prasad

Global Head HR - Network Services; Head HR – Americas Region

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Maureen L. Brosnan

Retired Managing Director at Accenture

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Joe Kennedy

Partner PwC: AUTOMATING EVERYTHING - Advisor/Coder

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Nilufer Shaikh

New York Partner at Troutman Pepper

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Sharon Stecker

Senior Vice President at Brown and Caldwell

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Roopa Bhandarkar

Partner at EY

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Mark Wuttke

President & COO, Babor Cosmetics

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Drew Vaden

Retired, Past CTO, PIMCO

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Terry Thomas

Retiree, formerly President, AAK US & Canada, AarhusKarlshamn

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Chaya Pamula

Co-Founder, President & CEO of PamTen & SHETEK, Founder

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Giles Nugent

Retired, Past EVP at PIMCO and Managing Director at Bank of America

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Sharon Stecker

Senior Vice President at Brown and Caldwell

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Paul Li

VP, Digital Partner, Genpact

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Lynne Sawyer

Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

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Michael Paulus

Managing Director, Finance Industry Executive

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Julie Emsing Mann

Global Protein Mngr, Ingredion

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Roopa Bhandarkar

VP, Financial Services at Capgemini Americas

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Tom Bergeron

Editor and Chief Content Officer, ROI-NJ

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Regina Egea

President, Garden State Initiative

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Vidya Kishore

Head of HR NA Corporate Functions at Johnson & Johnson

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Lorraine Niba

Global Director, Food Systems Business Development, Ingredion

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Diana Malcolmess

Digital Partner, BFS, VP, Genpact

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Mark Wuttke

President & COO, Babor Cosmetics

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Ravi Mohan

Partner & COO at Nyca Partners

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Sunil Warrier

Financial Services and Technology Professional

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Varsha Waishampayan

CEO and Founder WINGSforGrowth

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Deborah Borg

Chief Human Resources and Communications Officer at Bunge

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Josef M Oddo

Senior Vice President, Markets Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Kulin Hemani

CEO, Venn Health Partners

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Dawn Spring

Executive Director Customer Experience at Oticon USA

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Sarah Rodgers

Founder & CEO, Empower Change Consulting

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Nima Subramanian

General Manager, Janssen Biologics

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Satish Badgi

Managing Director at Deloitte

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Terry Coull

Enterprise Transformation at ThoughtWorks

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Chaya Pamula

Co-Founder, President & CEO of PamTen & SHETEK

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Navneet Puri

Chairman & CEO at Nevakar Inc.

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Susan Michel

CEO, Glen Eagle Advisors